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Posted To GCBRO Web Site On:
August 1, 2007
DATE:
August 12, 1980
TIME:
After dark, probably 10-11 pm
LOCATION:
Ashland County, Ohio
TERRAIN:
Wooded
OBSERVED: We were camping with a 4-6 other families and the tents were basically in a big circle with a large bonfire in the middle . the actual tents were under some pine trees with a more open area where the adults were sitting around the fire talking a distance in front of the row of tents. I left the campfire to check on the kids sleeping in our tent and had to walk in front of a few of the tents to get to ours.
As
I passed the tent next to mine there was what i take to be a young bigfoot
standing behind and between the tents, out of the bright light from the
fire but i could still see it clearly. It was about my height, which is
5'7". I probably wasn't more than 20-25 ft away from it but didn't smell
anything like some say they smell. I would call it grayish brown
hairy over it's body( not real long hair, a little longer than gorilla
hair but not really long like it was flowing, but not hairy on it's face.
It's face was not like a person's but not like an gorilla or any other
ape i have seen either, the facial features were flatter, more like a person's
(not the big rounded jaw an ape has) but not anyway human like i
could think it was really a person.( sorry it 's hard to describe) the
eyes deep set but not as deeply set as a gorilla's and looked amber( maybe
due to the firelight reflection) and the nose wasn't as wide as a gorillas..more
human like . it had hair on the sides of it's head but i didn't see
any ears or anything else I stopped dead in my tracks and it stared at
me and I stared at it. It startled me since I didn't expect to see
it but it never moved, giving me the impression it was just as scared.
I think it was young because it was small and also seemed innocent( ok
i know that sounds crazy) like it was just curious not out to hurt us.
it shook me up so I went back to the fire and it disappeared.
Activities
of Witness: Like i said, we
were sitting around a campfire after dinner talking, no one was drunk or
anything like that. it was a family camping trip with kids.
Description
of Creature: See above
Other
Notes: I never saw or
heard anything in the rest of the trip but we stopped going to that campground
after that yr. I always ( in the trips before and that one) got a creepy
feeling at that campground like we were being watched and it was never
busy there, a lot of times we were the only group there.
Other
(Informational or Encounter History in the General Area) Notes:
N/A
Additional
Notes and or Follow up Comments:
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